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Snowflake releases
November 2026 digestCoCo Desktop v1.25.0
Snowflake released CoCo Desktop v1.25.0, delivering faster and more stable execution for dbt workflows.
HTML reports (Preview)
Snowflake introduced HTML reports in public preview, allowing users to create, generate, and share self-contained report artifacts in Snowsight and CoWork.
Background runs and additional supplementary tools for agents in the Snowflake-managed MCP server
Snowflake added a background boolean parameter to CORTEX_AGENT_RUN and CODING_AGENT tools in its managed MCP server to enable non-blocking, pollable agent executions.
4 products
On-demand table creation for catalog-linked databases (General availability)
On-demand table creation for catalog-linked databases is now generally available.
CoCo automations (General availability)
CoCo automations are now generally available and are no longer in Preview . Automations let you schedule recurring, unattended CoCo runs that execute in a Snowflake-managed sandbox. Each run creates a Cortex thread that you can open to inspect the agent's messages, tool calls, and results.
Open Data Sharing (General availability)
Open Data Sharing is now generally available and is no longer in Preview .
Level of detail (LOD) expressions in semantic views (Preview)
Level of detail (LOD) expressions are now in preview for semantic views. An LOD expression calculates a value at a grain that's different from the query grain. You can use LOD expressions to:
Apache Iceberg™ tables: Read and write across Snowflake accounts with Snowflake Horizon Catalog, now without managing secrets (General availability)
With this release, you can read and write Apache Iceberg™ tables managed by another Snowflake account without creating, storing, or rotating secrets. This capability is generally available through catalog integrations for Snowflake Horizon Catalog. The accounts access the same table data without copying it.
CREATE OR ALTER SECRET, DCM Projects DEFINE SECRET, and environment variables (Preview)
Snowflake introduced a public preview of DEFINE SECRET and environment variables for DCM Projects, enabling declarative secret management and parameter masking.
Cortex Training (Preview)
Cortex Training is now available in preview, allowing users to customize open-weight LLMs using a serverless service within Snowflake.
Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog telemetry (General availability)
Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog telemetry is generally available, logging external query engine HTTP API calls to Snowflake account event tables.
Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
Snowflake has released updates for its Data Clean Rooms product.
CoCo Desktop v1.23.1
Snowflake released CoCo Desktop v1.23.1, introducing a dedicated agent settings page and reducing approval prompts.
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna, GPT-5.6 Terra, and GPT-6 Luna in AI Functions (Preview)
The following OpenAI models are now in public preview in AI Functions:
Streamlit in Snowflake container runtime in China (General availability)
The Streamlit in Snowflake container runtime is now generally available in the People's Republic of China. This allows users to run Streamlit applications on Snowpark Container Services compute pools in that region.
Request Access in Workspaces (General availability)
The Request Access feature in Workspaces is now generally available, allowing users to request access to resources directly within the interface.
OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra (Preview)
The openai-gpt-6.1-terra model is now in public preview in Cortex Inference (REST API) and AI Functions.
Carry over comments, tags, and privileges with COPY = ( ... )
The new COPY = ( ... ) parameter for CREATE OR REPLACE statements allows users to automatically carry over comments, tags, and privileges from an existing object to its replacement.
Continuous and bulk file loading with CoCo (General availability)
Snowflake Cortex Code (CoCo) now supports generally available continuous and bulk file loading. Users can define file loading requirements to trigger Snowpipe pipelines for new files or COPY INTO commands for existing files, targeting standard or Iceberg tables.
Cloning databases that contain hybrid tables (General availability)
Cloning databases that contain hybrid tables is now generally available in the same Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud commercial regions where hybrid tables are available.
Autopilot for sensitive data classification (Public Preview)
With this preview release, Autopilot is available for sensitive data classification. Autopilot lets Snowflake manage classification timing, reclassification schedules, and minimum object age to optimize performance and cost.
CoCo Desktop v1.23.0
CoCo Desktop v1.23.0 improves session organization and enables Snowflake Managed MCP servers across all accounts.
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Atomic deployments, centralized configuration, and advanced branching for task graphs (Preview)
Snowflake has introduced a preview for task graph management, including centralized configuration, non-suspending pipeline updates, and conditional execution based on upstream outcomes.
Ingress policies (Preview)
Snowflake has introduced ingress policies in preview, allowing users to admit or block requests by combining multiple conditions into a single policy.
Skill and plugin sharing in CoCo (General availability)
Skill and plugin sharing in CoCo has moved from Preview to General Availability.
Declarative Feature Store (General availability)
The Declarative Feature Store workflow is now generally available. Define your feature store resources (entities, data sources, feature views, and feature groups) as version-controlled YAML or Python specs, then preview and deploy them with the snow feature CLI using a plan-and-apply workflow.
Cortex Fine-tuning: New model training no longer available in AWS US East 1
Starting October 20, 2026, Cortex Fine-tuning will no longer support the creation of new fine-tuned models in AWS US East 1 (N. Virginia).
Sensitive Data Entitlement and Access reports (General availability)
With this release, the following Trust Center reports are generally available. These reports require Enterprise Edition or higher .
Snowflake-provided tags (General availability)
With this release, Snowflake-provided tags are generally available. These out-of-the-box tags in the SNOWFLAKE.TAGS schema give you a consistent vocabulary for common governance use cases, including cost center, certification status, sensitivity, environment, and project, without creating and maintaining equivalent tags in each account.
Tools for Cortex AI Gateway (Preview)
We are pleased to announce the preview of Tools for Cortex AI Gateway, which connects AI clients to the business tools your organization already uses through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Supported clients include CoCo Desktop, CoCo CLI, Claude, and Cursor.
Schema variables (General availability)
With this release, we're pleased to announce the general availability of schema variables.
Grok 4.7 and GLM 5.3 models (Preview)
The grok-4.7 and glm-5.3 models are now available in Public Preview in AI Functions, Cortex Inference, Cortex Agents, Snowflake CoWork, and Snowflake CoCo.
Openflow Endpoints (General availability)
With this release, Openflow endpoints are now generally available for Snowflake deployments and Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployments. You can create stable HTTPS URLs that route external HTTP requests to Listen processors in your Openflow runtimes.
Cortex AI Gateway on Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS New Zealand
Cortex AI Gateway is now available to accounts in Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) commercial regions, and in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region.
Data mirroring for Snowflake Postgres (General availability)
Data mirroring for Snowflake Postgres is now generally available. Data mirroring continuously replicates tables from a Snowflake Postgres instance into a Snowflake database with minimal lag. Inserts, updates, deletes, and schema changes on the source appear on the target automatically, without ETL pipelines, batch jobs, or third-party connectors.
Centralized event sharing for Snowflake Native Apps , General Availability
Centralized event sharing for Snowflake Native Apps is now generally available. Providers can use event routing tables to route application telemetry from multiple regions to centralized destination accounts.
Document generation in Snowflake CoWork (General availability)
Document generation in Snowflake CoWork is now generally available and is no longer in Preview . You can ask Snowflake CoWork to generate a PDF, a Word document ( .docx ), a PowerPoint presentation, or an HTML file from your analysis. Generation requires the Cortex Agent code execution tool on the associated agent.
Gemini 4 Argon model in AI Functions (Preview)
The gemini-4-argon model is now available in Public Preview in AI Functions with AI_COMPLETE.
Sensitive data classification error and retry updates
With this release, sensitive data classification provides more specific error messages when automatic classification fails.
CoCo Desktop v1.21.7
CoCo Desktop v1.21.7 lets the agent manage your automations and makes MCP connections easier to control:
Share Streamlit in Snowflake apps with individual users (General availability)
You can now share a Streamlit in Snowflake app directly with a user, not only with a role. In the Share Streamlit app window, search by username and select a permission level. If the user lacks USAGE on the app's database and schema, you can grant it from the same window. The user is notified in Snowsight, and by email if their email address is verified.
Horizon Context (Preview)
We're introducing Horizon Context in preview. Horizon Context extends Horizon Catalog with metadata from external systems and new ways to curate descriptions and preserve lineage, helping people and AI agents discover and understand data across your organization.
Named workload identity management for users
You can now use SQL to register, modify, and remove named workload identities for a service user. Each workload identity has its own name and provider settings. A user can have up to 10 workload identities by default.
Snowsight interface for tags and data protection policies (General availability)
With this release, the Snowsight interface for tags and data protection policies is generally available. These areas require Enterprise Edition or higher .
Agentic Marketplace Discovery (Public preview)
Agentic Marketplace Discovery is now available in public preview. On the public Snowflake Marketplace Discover page in Snowsight, you can switch between Agentic discovery and Marketplace search . Describe what you need to CoCo to find and compare matching listings, or search for providers and listings directly.
Stable egress IP addresses on Azure (General availability)
Stable egress IP addresses are now generally available on Azure and are no longer in Preview . You can generate Snowflake egress IP address ranges (as CIDR addresses) and add them to an external server's allowlist so that Snowflake can make requests to that server.
Claude Haiku 5.5 model in the Cortex REST API (Preview)
The claude-haiku-5-5 model is now available in Public Preview in the Cortex REST API.
Zero-copy integration for Workday Data Cloud (General availability)
The zero-copy integration between Workday Data Cloud and Snowflake is now generally available. You can query Workday Data Cloud tables directly from your existing Snowflake account, without ETL pipelines, data replication, or moving data out of Workday.
Kimi K3 model (Preview)
The kimi-k3 model is now available in Public Preview in AI Functions and the Cortex REST API.
Data lineage for storage integrations, external tables, model monitors, and Cortex Search services
Data lineage now includes the following relationships:
OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol model (Preview)
The openai-gpt-6.1-sol model is now available in Public Preview in Cortex AI.
Enforce CoCo policy with MDM (Preview)
Enforcing CoCo policy with Mobile Device Management (MDM) is now available in preview. Administrators can deliver account restrictions, allowed authentication methods, and minimum version requirements for CoCo CLI and CoCo Desktop through a macOS configuration profile, Windows Group Policy or Intune, or managed-settings.json .
Cortex Agent code execution tool (General availability)
The Cortex Agent code execution tool is now generally available. The code execution tool is a built-in tool that enables an agent to execute code during a conversation, so your agents can run scripts to process data, perform calculations, and produce visualizations.
Snowflake Native Apps: Observability for Cortex Agents
Observability for Cortex Agents in a Snowflake Native App now includes the following capabilities:
Migration of gen 1 Openflow deployments and runtimes to gen 2 (General availability)
Migration of gen 1 Openflow deployments and runtimes to gen 2 is now generally available. From the Openflow UI, you can convert an existing gen 1 deployment ( OPENFLOW DATA PLANE INTEGRATION ) and all of its runtimes ( OPENFLOW RUNTIME INTEGRATION ) into gen 2 OPENFLOW DEPLOYMENT and OPENFLOW RUNTIME objects, with standard Snowflake RBAC on the resulting...
Remote app operations for Snowflake Native Apps (General availability)
Remote app operations for Snowflake Native Apps are now generally available.
Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 model (Preview)
The claude-sonnet-5-5 model is now available in Public Preview in Cortex AI Functions and the Cortex REST API.
DCM Projects ATTACH MASKING POLICY (Preview)
With this Public Preview release, you can use ATTACH MASKING POLICY in DCM Projects definition files to declaratively assign a masking policy to one or more columns in tables, Apache Iceberg™ tables, views, or dynamic tables. DCM Projects manages the masking policy attachment throughout its deployment lifecycle.
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Snowflake Inc. is an American cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) data platform company founded in San Mateo, California, and headquartered in Menlo Park. It operates a platform that supports data analysis and simultaneous access to data sets with minimal latency.
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